| History By Day |
| May 3rd |
| History by Day - Copyright 2009 |
| About May 3rd is the 123rd day of the year (124th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 242 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. May 3rd is World Press Freedom Day. Births 1849 - Jacob August Riis, journalist 1859 - Andy Adams, author 1861 - Emmett Dalton, outlaw 1888 - Beulah Bondi, actress 1903 - Bing Crosby, singer, actor 1906 - Anna E. Roosevelt, FDR daughter, radio personality 1906 - Mary Astor, actress 1910 - Norman Corwin, radio pioneer 1912 - Virgil Fox, organist 1913 - William Inge, playwright 1915 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler and trainer 1917 - Betty Comden, lyricist 1919 - John Cullen Murphy, comic strip artist 1919 - Pete Seeger, singer 1920 - John Lewis, jazz musician, composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) 1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, professional boxer 1921 - Joe Ames, singer 1923 - Ralph Hall, politician 1932 - Robert Osborne, film historian 1933 - James Brown, singer, dancer 1933 - Steven Weinberg, famed physicist 1933 - Alex Cord, actor 1934 - Frankie Valli, singer (The Four Seasons) 1935 - Ron Popeil, inventor, television personality 1943 - Jim Risch, U.S Senator 1945 - Davey Lopes, baseball player, coach 1946 - Norm Chow, football coach 1946 - Greg Gumbel, sports broadcaster 1948 - Chris Mulkey, actor 1949 - Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator 1951 - Christopher Cross, musician 1952 - Charles Baldwin, political figure 1952 - Caitlin Clarke. American actress 1958 - Kevin Kilner, actor 1960 - Amy Steel, actress 1961 - Joe Murray, cartoonist 1961 - David Vitter, U.S. Senator 1963 - Jeff Hornacek, professional basketball player 1966 - Peter Abbay, actor 1966 - Firdous Bamji, Indian-American actor 1968 - Shane Minor, singer 1969 - Daryl F. Mallett, writer, editor 1970 - Jeffrey Sebelia, fashion designer 1975 - Willie Geist, television personality 1975 - Ron Popeil, informercial salesman (Showtime Rotisserie, Chop-O-Matic) 1975 - Dulé Hill, actor 1978 - Paul Banks, vocalist (Interpol) 1978 - Christina Hendricks, actress 1980 - Marcel Vigneron, chef (Top Chef) 1981 - Farrah Franklin, American singer (Destiny's Child) 1983 - Joseph Addai, professional football running back 1984 - Nam Sang-mi, actress, model 1984 - Cheryl Burke, professional dancer 1985 - Greg Raposo, pop singer Deaths 1724 - John Leverett the Younger, President of Harvard 1752 - Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland 1779 - John Winthrop, American astronomer 1972 - Bruce Cabot, film actor 1976 - Ernie Nevers, Hall of Fame fullback, football coach 1992 - George Murphy, dancer, actor, politician 1996 - Jack Weston, actor 1999 - Joe Adcock, professional baseball player 2003 - Suzy Parker, actress 2006 - Earl Woods, athlete (Tiger Woods’ father) 2007 - Wally Schirra, astronaut Events 1494 - Christopher Columbus first sights land that will later be named Jamaica . 1802 - Washington , D.C. is incorporated as a city. 1901 - The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville , Florida . 1921 - West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax. 1924 - Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha , Nebraska by Sam Beber. 1933 - Nellie Tayloe Ross heads the U.S. Mint, becoming the first woman to do so. 1937 - Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone with the Wind wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 1942 - During World War II, Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island during Operation Mo resulting in the Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese and the United States and Australia . 1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable. 1951 - The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin closed door meetings on U.S. President Harry Truman’s dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur. 1951 - The Kentucky Derby is shown on televison the first time. 1952 - U.S. Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the North Pole. 1957 - An agreement is made by Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley to move the team to Los Angeles , California . 1960 - The Fantasticks, an Off-Broadway musical comedy, opens in New York City 's Greenwich Village and eventually becomes the longest-running musical in history. 1963 - New attention is brought to the African-American Civil Rights Movement when the images come out of the Birmingham , Alabama police force using violent force to stop the " Birmingham campaign" protesters. 1973 - The Sears Tower in Chicago becomes the tallest building in the United States , surpassing the World Trade Center . 1978 - Every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States receives the first spam email, which is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative. 1987 - A Bobby Allison crash occurs at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama near the finish line, which would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at the Daytona International Speedway and Talladega . 1999 - An F5 tornado hits Oklahoma City , Oklahoma killing 42 people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. 2003 - New Hampshire 's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses. 2006 - Zacarias Moussaoui, convicted of conspiring to take part in the September 11th terrorist attacks, is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria , Virginia. |
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